If you had bought when I suggested you would have bought 1000 shares for $49,370 and it would have risen to $63,710 on 22-May-08. Unfortunately today it's worth your original investment. You did get $325 dividend so the gas bill was paid however with the 30% increase coming up either you hope for dividend increase or buy another 300 shares. See the link http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ta?t=6m&l=on&z=m&q=b&p=m50%2Cm200&a=vm&c=&s=nfg
As a young man I thought it would by nice to own enough of NFG so that the dividends would cover my gas bill. I never did that, but consider this...at todays price I would need to buy about $50M worth...seems like a lot, but the stock consistently doubles in value in about 5 years so in 5 years one would have enjoyed gas bills covered by dividends and $50M in stock appreciated to $100M...